(The Verge By Jacob Kastrenakes) – Though the NSA has tried to paint Edward Snowden as an unqualified and unscrupulous rogue, a new report suggests that he may have only gained access to the sensitive documents he leaked earlier this year because he was anything but. Speaking withForbes, an alleged NSA employee who knew him says that coworkers viewed Snowden as both smart and trustworthy. “That kid was a genius among geniuses,” the anonymous NSA employee tells Forbes. “NSA is full of smart people, but anybody who sat in a meeting with Ed will tell you he was in a class of his own … I’ve never seen anything like it.”

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(The Verge By Jacob Kastrenakes) – Though the NSA has tried to paint Edward Snowden as an
unqualified and unscrupulous rogue, a new report suggests that he may have only gained
access to the sensitive documents he leaked earlier this year because he was anything
but. Speaking withForbes, an alleged NSA employee who knew him says that coworkers viewed
Snowden as both smart and trustworthy. “That kid was a genius among geniuses,” the
anonymous NSA employee tells Forbes. “NSA is full of smart people, but anybody who sat in a
meeting with Ed will tell you he was in a class of his own … I’ve never seen anything like it.”
The employee, whose comments Forbesreportedly confirmed with Snowden’s ACLU lawyer, says
that Snowden impressed NSA officials by frequently reporting security vulnerabilities and by
developing what has now become a widely used backup system. At one point, Snowden was
reportedly even offered a position on the NSA’s Tailored Access Operations group — a secret
team of highly skilled hackers — but ultimately turned the job down. Nonetheless, Forbes reports
that Snowden’s technical abilities were enough to land him access to nearly any NSA data he
could want, even as a contractor.
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While it wasn’t until spring this year that Snowden’s leaked NSA documents came out, he
reportedly voiced his concerns over the agency’s activities before then — albeit much more
quietly. Forbes reports that Snowden used to wear a sweatshirt to work that satirized the
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agency’s activities: sold by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the sweatshirt’s back depicted a
parody NSA logo that replaced the American shield with an AT&T data box that had wires spilling
out of it and into the talons of an eagle. Forbes also reports that Snowden kept a copy of the
Constitution at his desk so that he could cite it when arguing against activities he thought might
violate US law.
Regardless of what coworkers used to think of Snowden, the NSA’s public line has been to
criticize his activities ever since he was identified as the source of the leaks. In an interview last
night, NSA agents called his work behavior “strange” and noted that he was a high school
dropout.
Even so, Snowden’s abilities were reportedly enough to make up for these smaller signs of
resistance — and his lack of security clearances. The alleged NSA employee suggests
to Forbes that Snowden was likely granted access to files beyond his security clearance simply
because he could get work done that others couldn’t: “If you had a guy who could do things
nobody else could, and the only problem was that his badge was green instead of blue, what
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